Lesson

Contextualized Online Search

3 and Research Skills

What ’s In

In previous lesson, we discussed on online safety, security, ethics and etiquette that we
must take into consideration in using internet. Technology such mobile phone, laptop,
computer, and other electronic gadgets connect us to world through different online
platforms. Security and safety have been taught to us so that we can avoid risk and
danger online. As an individual who is part of online community must maintain good
social behavior. We need to adhere to the same standard behavior online that we follow
in real life. Now that you are ready to enter and explore the online world, this lesson will
teach you on online search and research skills.

What I Need to Know

Internet Research is a research method in collecting and gathering information via

internet by using search engine such as google.

Search Engine
is a program that allows users to search for content on internet.

Examples of Search Engine

Google Aol Search Wow Baidu
Web Crawler Yahoo! Search MyWebSearch Wolframalpha
Bing Info Dogpile DuckDuckGo
Ask Infospace Contenko Internet Archive

Searching the Web

Getting the correct and reliable information is our goal in internet research. We
may rely on the capability of search engine but sometimes it may not give us the correct
information because of the keywords we entered into a search engine. There are
techniques in searching information that can be applied in search engine in order to get
a better result. Some search engines allow combination of words and logic connectors
of AND, OR, and NOT.

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Tips for Effective Internet Research by George Mathews
1. Know what kind of research you want to do.
2. Make a list of keywords you will use in your search.
3. Enclose keywords in quotation marks.
4. Use the minus sign (-).
5. Try specialized search engines.
6. Skim through search results web pages.
7. Bookmark
8. Review your bookmarks.

Online Research Skills by Hannah Trierweiler Hudson

1. Check Your Sources

2. Ask Good Questions
3. Go Beyond the Surface
4. Be Patient
5. Respect Ownership
6. Use Your Networks

Copyright Issues
There are millions of information that we can get from the internet. Some of this
information are free but others are not. They are protected by a copyright law.

What is Copyright?
Copyright is a protection given to the owner of the rights in an original work
such as books, musical works, films, paintings, and other works, and computer
programs. This original work is called intellectual property which is protected under
Republic Act 8293 known as the “Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines”.

Copyright Infringement
This happens when the copyrighted work is use by other person without
permission of the author or copyright holder. Any person who is infringing the right
protected work would be liable under the law. An example of this is the case of M.Y.
Intercontinental Trading Corporation (MITC), Tedwin T. Uy, Allianz Marketing and
Publishing Corp. (Allianz), and Fujian New Technology Color Making and Printing
Company, LTD (Fujian) against St. Mary’s Publishing Corporation (SMPC). Manila
regional trial court ordered Fujian and its partners to pay P24.7 million for the damages
and cost of litigation for copyright infringement to SMPC. Fujian and its three local
partners was guilty of printing, copying, reproducing, importing, distributing and selling
of original and revised textbooks that they have illegally sold to Department of Education
in Zamboanga, Municipality of Cabuyao in Laguna and Municipality of Matnog in
Sorsogon without the approval of SMPC, the copyright owner of the textbooks.

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Fair Use
Research is important to the students and other people. Most of them rely on the
information that they can get online. Although this information is protected by a copyright
law but we can still use this information without permission in a limited way under certain
condition and purpose.

Fair use is the use of copyrighted material for comment, teaching, criticism, news
reporting, research, scholarship, and other similar purpose is not an infringement of
copyright.

Example of this is when you post a quote from a person in your Facebook wall.
Include the name of person who owns the quote in your post. Another example is when
you copy image from internet, give credit to the creator of image. The copied image
should be use for educational purpose not for commercial use.
In fair use, 5% of the content of reference can only be copied. If 20% or less of
reference copied, there must be a secondary use agreement and fee. And if 20% or more
of reference copied, it requires purchasing of creative work.

Guidelines for Fair Use

1. Majority of the contents created must be yours.

2. Give credit to the owner.
3. Don’t make profit of the copyrighted work.